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Oceanian History

What do you know about facts and important events of Oceania?
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1. The ancestors of which people settled in Australia around 40,000 BC?
Nazca
Aborigines
Tlingit
Maori
2. What is the other name for Ayers Rock, a sandstone monolith sacred to indigenous Australians?
Uluru
Savandurga
Ben Amera
Stawamus
3. Where did the Polynesians start building stone plateaus for religious ceremonies after 700?
Galapagos
Society Islands
Easter Island
Christmas Islands
4. What empire expanded in Oceania and had its peak during the period 1200–1500?
Tu'i Tonga
Tu'i Fiji
Tu'i Vanuatu
Tu'i Kiribati
5. Which explorer discovered New Zealand in 1642?
Abel Tasman
Sir Francis Drake
Ferdinand Magellan
James Cook
6. What is the name of hypothetical continent that Europeans were searching in South Pacific?
Zealandia
Atlantis
Terra Australis
New Holland
7. What do the islanders call the Easter Island statues?
Rapa Nui
Moai
Maui
Holokai
8. What biblical legendary land from which the gold of Emperor Solomon originates was sought by the Portuguese in Oceania?
Ophir
El Dorado
Punt
Canaan
9. What do the Maori call their fortified settlements?
Waikiki
Tiki
Pa
Aoteoaro
10. Where was famous explorer captain James Cook killed on his third voyage?
New Zealand
Philippines
Indonesia
Hawaii
11. Kamehameha the Great, was the founder and the first ruler of which kingdom in Oceania?
Fiji
New Zealand
Tonga
Hawaii
12. With which country the British Crown signed the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840?
New Zealand
Fiji
Australia
Solomon Islands
13. Who was the captain of the rebellion ship HMS Bounty, which was sent to the South Pacific to acquire breadfruit plants and transport them to the West Indies?
Samuel Wallace
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
William Bligh
John McDouall Stuart
14. Which British admiral established the convict settlement in Sydney in 1788?
Robert Menzis
Arthur Phillip
Ned Kelly
Harry Morant
15. How many British colonies united and created the Australian Commonwealth?
Six
Five
Three
Four
16. Which country was the first in the world to allow women to vote in 1893?
Fiji
Australia
Papua New Guinea
New Zealand
17. In which present country the Battle of Guadalcanal occurred?
Papua New Guinea
Solomon Islands
New Zealand
Vanuatu
18. From which country did Kon-Tiki embark on an expedition to the Polynesian islands led by Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl in 1947?
Mexico
Peru
Japan
Australia
19. Which Australian city did Japan attack in February 1942?
Perth
Brisbane
Sydney
Darwin
20. In 1975 Papua New Guinea got independence from which country?
Spain
France
Australia
Great Britain
21. Which country took responsibility for sinking the Rainbow Warrior ship in Auckland in 1985 caused by protests against nuclear testing?
Spain
Germany
France
United States
22. Which territory in Oceania voted in the 2021 referendum to remain part of France?
Reunion
French Polynesia
New Caledonia
Mayotte
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